Donetsk Water Filtration Station to be re-launched on Wednesday

11:18, 12.09.2018 1 min read

Donetsk Water Filtration Station is to be re-launched on Wednesday, September 12, after repairs to a transformer engaged in the station's power supply were completed on Tuesday, September 11, the press service of the State Emergency Situations Service of Ukraine has said.

"The water supply to the town of Avdiyivka (22,000 people) was suspended due to a halt to Donetsk Filtration Station. On September 7, the repair team revealed a broken 110 kV Makiyivska – Avdiyivka Coke Plant No. 2 line and a malfunction of the transformer (in temporarily uncontrolled territory). On September 11, the repairs to the transformer were over. The re-launch of Donetsk Filtration Station is scheduled for September 12," the service's branch in Donetsk region has said on its website on Tuesday, September 11.

The service said it had delivered some 12,000 liters of drinking water to households in Avdiyivka during the station's standstill.